Halloween

Are there any ghost stories about your school or other places in your community? Now is a great time to dig them out and translate them into comprehensible target language stories. They are always high interest and often involve pretty basic vocabulary (people often HEAR or SEE ghosts that WALK or TALK or SCREAM or LOOK OUT windows).

Last year, I made a short reading about the ghost that lives at Clark Middle School, and then my class spent a few days investigating the claims. We spoke to staff that had been at the school for a long time and teachers that often work late at the school. Some of them wrote us emails, and others came into class and were interviewed. All of their contributions were in English, but we compiled the evidence and discussed their claims in Spanish. It was awesome! If you don’t have a ghost story, you could have your students read about the purported ghost at my school and then have a discussion about various hauntings that students have heard of and whether or not they believe in ghosts at all!